Figure 3.

Classification of early-fed (EF) piglets into good (green), moderate (blue) and bad (red) eaters. (A) Individual piglet’s eating behaviour quantification (14 EF piglets; total eating seconds per week) for four weeks pre-weaning by video observation. (B) Good (> 2 × median; green), moderate (between 0.8 × and 2 × median; blue) and bad (below 0.8 × median; red) eaters, grouping based on eating observed in the “last two days” before weaning. (C) Redundancy analysis based on eating scores from “last two days” before weaning (explained variation = 5.42%, P = 0.024), establishing the microbiota discrimination between the “good”, “moderate” and “bad” classification within the EF piglets (minimum fit value of at least 30% and > 0.55 response score on horizontal axis). (D) Spearman correlation of individual microbial genera with the eating score from “last two days”. Lachnospiraceae ND3007, Eubacterium xylanophilum, Prevotella 1 and Odoribacter were identified in redundancy analysis.